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An attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council pledged the organization will continue to fight for restrictions on bisphenol A after a judge ruled Friday that the chemical be removed from California's list of reproductive toxicants. "There will be further opportunities to argue the issues," said the attorney, Avinash Kar, adding that the ruling is only a temporary setback.

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US District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn was hard on the Labor Department during a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the agency's new fiduciary rule, said Erin Sweeney, a lawyer with Miller & Chevalier, although others saw scrutiny of both sides during oral arguments. The judge was particularly troubled by the fact that the department ruled on studies that only deal with mutual funds in order to reach conclusions about annuities, Sweeney said.

Google is said to have earned $22 billion on about $31 billion in revenues from its Android operating system since its 2008 launch, an Oracle attorney claims as part of the software company's copyright lawsuit against the Internet giant. Google on Wednesday asked a judge to seal the record, saying it was a proprietary figure without revealing whether it was accurate.

A Washington Supreme Court ruling in a case involving a title insurance agent who allegedly provided free meals and other perks means that a wide range of insurers could be held responsible for their agents' actions, attorney David Rossmiller said. "It is definitely going to be applied to be more broadly than just" to title insurance and could affect property/casualty and other sectors, Rossmiller said.

A company with 500 employees could face fines of up to $37,500 per day if it violates nondiscrimination rules included in the Affordable Care Act, writes Benjamin Lupin, an ERISA lawyer. The rules bar employers from providing better health care packages to executives and other highly compensated employees. "The real problem ... is that the rules -- as currently written -- are convoluted and hard to apply," Lupin writes.

An order issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Sept. 9 to end licensing-board activities on the application for the Yucca Mountain project in Nevada addresses some of the concerns raised by petitioners in a lawsuit over the project, said Charles Mullins, an attorney for the NRC. In that lawsuit, the petitioners urged the court to force NRC to rule on the licensing for the Yucca Mountain project. An attorney for one of the petitioners said that they will soon submit a motion in response to the NRC's Sept. 9 order.